The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1851 |
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... trees , all looked fresh and green . The sight most worthy to be seen , however , is the view from the castle itself ; save the remains of the statue of Polycarp , the building has little interest . Of vast extent , great solidity , and ...
... trees , all looked fresh and green . The sight most worthy to be seen , however , is the view from the castle itself ; save the remains of the statue of Polycarp , the building has little interest . Of vast extent , great solidity , and ...
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... tree , surrounded by a low wall , venerated as of peculiar sanctity by the Ansaryii , as marking the burial - place of St. George , one of their most venerated saints . They are the most prevailing people from this to Tripoli ; of their ...
... tree , surrounded by a low wall , venerated as of peculiar sanctity by the Ansaryii , as marking the burial - place of St. George , one of their most venerated saints . They are the most prevailing people from this to Tripoli ; of their ...
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... trees or well - cared vines ; bold and rocky heights exhibit views of much beauty ; the eye upturned rests on bolder , higher eminences backwards over the muddy plain , in the distance green and pretty ; over the deep waters of the bay ...
... trees or well - cared vines ; bold and rocky heights exhibit views of much beauty ; the eye upturned rests on bolder , higher eminences backwards over the muddy plain , in the distance green and pretty ; over the deep waters of the bay ...
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... trees , and other verdure , imbed the whole in one mass of green . Enquiring of a native the cause of all this prosperity , he at once imputed the whole of it to the Sultan's visit . " Ibrahim Pasha , " he said , " first treated the ...
... trees , and other verdure , imbed the whole in one mass of green . Enquiring of a native the cause of all this prosperity , he at once imputed the whole of it to the Sultan's visit . " Ibrahim Pasha , " he said , " first treated the ...
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... trees alone were left for their intrinsic worth . The very ground she reposed on was envied by the plough , whose sharp traces had run round it in scraping propinquity . The beautiful kiosks into which , on my last visit , a way had to ...
... trees alone were left for their intrinsic worth . The very ground she reposed on was envied by the plough , whose sharp traces had run round it in scraping propinquity . The beautiful kiosks into which , on my last visit , a way had to ...
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Aintab Aleppo amidst ancient Ansayrii antique appears Arabs arches Armenian arrived baggage banks bazaars beauty Bedawee beneath Beyrout built called carpets castle Christians church Constantinople curious Dahhal Damascus Desert Diarbekr Djebel dress East Eastern encampment entered Euphrates feet fellow gardens gate half Hamath hand handsome Haran hill Homs horses houses huge Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants inscription khan Koords Latakia Mahomet mare Maronite minaret Montselim Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Mussulman nargilleh native night Orfa ornamented passed perhaps piastres pipe plain poor portions prayer pretty probably Prophet river road rock rode round ruins Saphi Saracenic seemed servants sheik sherbets side Sidon smoke spot Stamboul standing stone Sultan Syria tents Terah tobacco tombs tower town traveller trees tribe trousers Turkish Turkomans Turks village visited walk walls whole wild women
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Page 69 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted : they have torn me, and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 154 - The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Through climes and ages bears each form and name : In one short view, subjected to our eye, Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.
Page 221 - And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 125 - ... ought, if you can, to go on the first and hold back the bough of the rose-tree. And through this wilderness there tumbles a loud rushing stream, which is halted at last in the lowest corner of the garden, and there tossed up in a fountain by the side of the simple alcove. This is all. Never for an instant will the people of Damascus attempt to separate the idea of bliss from these wild gardens and rushing waters.
Page 184 - See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very tombs now vanished like their dead!
Page 354 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing mill be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Page 55 - Of those who have made a schism in their religion, and are divided into various sects, every sect rejoice in their own opinion.
Page 224 - Go to her tomb and there thou wilt find a weed. Pluck it, place it in a reed, and inhale the smoke as you put fire to it. This will be to you wife and mother, father and brother, and, above all, will be a wise counsellor and teach thy soul wisdom and thy spirit joy.
Page 214 - That in the latter days there should be men who should bear the name of Moslems, but should not be really such; and that they should smoke a certain weed, which should be called TOBACCO." However, the eastern nations are generally so addicted to both, that they say, "A dish of coffee and a pipe of tobacco are a complete entertainment;" and the Persians have a proverb that coffee without tobacco...
Page 55 - Be constant in prayer, and give alms ; and what good ye have sent before for your souls, ye shall find it with God; surely God seeth that which ye do.